Salon.com > Richard Pious http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 18:05:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Teddy Roosevelt biography that sets a new standard http://www.salon.com/2010/11/26/colonel_roosevelt_edmund_morris/ http://www.salon.com/2010/11/26/colonel_roosevelt_edmund_morris/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/11/26/colonel_roosevelt_edmund_morris Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt (and the author of a critically panned biography of Ronald Reagan), has returned with the third and final volume of his Roosevelt biography. "Colonel Roosevelt," with its descriptive and narrative power, its thorough exploitation of sources, and its interplay of man and nation, may be the best biography ever written about the life of an American president. It fascinates, in much the same way that Roosevelt's editor at 'Metropolitan Magazine" described the impression "TR" made on people: "all showing some signs of having passed through a tidal moment in their lives."

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